Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Scientists estimate that Brazil hasn’t seen a normal period of rainfall since 2010. Scientists estimate that the country hasn’t seen a normal period of rainfall since 2010. The country’s worst drought in nearly a century is choking commerce, threatening ecosystems, and diminishing hydroelectric power generation. Wikimedia Commons.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The only region of cooling is the northern Atlantic, where climate models have long predicted just that due to a slowing of the Atlantic Ocean overturning circulation. The heating of the global ocean has been going on at a steady rate of nine zeta Joules per year for decades , which is 15 times the worldwide primary energy consumption.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 16, 2021

On the back of the dark and sombre Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) cli mate report released last week, the US government agency National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has confirmed that this July was the warmest month ever experienced on Earth. By Anders Lorenzen. Photo credit: NOAA NCEI. Record-breaker.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 13, 2024

Deep in the Pacific Ocean, a strange, diaphanous balloon drifts by. Taking inspiration from nature isn’t new, but marine biomimetics is relatively nascent partly because just 5% of the ocean has been explored. Meanwhile, animals such as the ram’s horn squid have inspired better ways to explore the ocean itself. trillion and $5.7

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

The basis of this relationship is the rough balance between the net uptake of carbon into deep pools (mainly the deep ocean) and the rate at which the oceans warm in response to an energy imbalance. This figure is from the AR6 SPM: The relationship between cumulative carbon emissions and temperature (SPM AR6).

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Legal Planet

JUNE 27, 2022

Moreover, the growing navigability of the Arctic Ocean will be to Russia’s benefit. Russia has already begun to experience infrastructure damage due to melting permafrost; massive wildfires in forested areas and peat fires elsewhere; and horrendous heatwaves like the one that killed tens of thousands of people in 2010.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

In the Arctic Ocean, the summer sea ice minimum is an important milestone during this seasonal transition. The sea ice minimum occurs when the extent of sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean reaches its lowest point for the year. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763.

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Real Climate

JULY 10, 2022

For some parts of the spectrum, the IR can be either absorbed by CO 2 or by water vapour or by clouds, but taking those overlaps into account we find that 50% of the greenhouse effect is from water vapour, 25% from clouds, and about 20% from CO 2 and the rest absorbed by ozone, aerosols, and other trace gases ( Schmidt et al, 2010 ).

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Physics World

JUNE 3, 2021

It will analyse Venus’ atmosphere to understand how it formed and evolved and determine whether Venus had an ocean. A hothouse. The last dedicated NASA mission to Venus was the Magellan spacecraft that launched on 4 May 1989 to map the surface of Venus. The post NASA selects two Venus missions for launch appeared first on Physics World.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

UCS led the way with these source attribution studies that establish a direct causal link between emissions attributable to fossil fuel producing entities and: Roughly 40% of the increase in global mean surface temperature between 1880 and 2010, with more than 35% of this increase occurring in the past 50 years, well after fossil fuel companies understood (..)

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

BP's "Beyond Petroleum" Campaign Losing its Sheen Anne Landman | PR Watch | May 3, 2010 Back in July, 2000, British Petroleum launched a high-profile, $200 million public relations ad campaign designed by Ogilvy & Mather to position the company as environmentally-friendly.

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Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

According to the report , average net annual human-caused GHG emissions were at their highest levels in human history between 2010 and 2019, with urban areas responsible for an increasing proportion of the emissions. The rate of emissions growth year on year slowed between 2010-2019 in comparison to the previous decade.

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 3, 2021

A high proportion of plastic waste ends up in seas and oceans – estimates suggest that more than 250,000 tons of plastic debris are currently floating around in oceans all over the world. . Plastics are taking over the oceans.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 22, 2022

He makes his living on the Turnbridge Plantation in his hometown of Hardeeville, South Carolina, 30 minutes from the Atlantic Ocean. Atlantic sea levels are rising three to four times faster than the global ocean average. mile dike has protected 11,000 acres and $64 million of property from salt since its completion in 2010.

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Physics World

DECEMBER 2, 2021

However, additional reservoirs of water with a similar D/H ratio are required to account for all the water in Earth’s oceans. The exceptions include a handful of comets and carbonaceous chondrites, or C-type, asteroids. A sample of dust. Desch says that Daly’s team have not properly considered the environment of the solar nebula.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2023

Some marine species also experience boundaries to movement, including ocean currents, thermoclines, and shipping lanes, but they are generally more able to track changes in sea temperatures. In the oceans, prolonged periods of unusually high sea surface temperatures are having a major impact.

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The Energy Law Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Moreno : On November 15, 2010, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a memorandum providing States with guidance on how to address ocean acidification in their Clean Water Act 303(d) impairment listings. For example, Puerto Rico’s 2010 303(d) list already includes five coastal water segments impaired by marine pH.

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CEQA Developments

MAY 11, 2021

acre project site includes tide and submerged lands in the Pacific Ocean off Huntington Beach occupied by a “once-through” cooling system used in connection with an upland power generating station. Despite no legal challenges being made to the 2010 SEIR, the project again did not move forward. Factual and Procedural Background.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

degrees Celsius, but also to enable communities to live with extreme weather, acidifying oceans, and rising seas that are already occurring. The Green Climate Fund was established in 2010 as a means of financing adaptation and emissions reductions in developing countries. Rich countries have offered only a fraction of the $100 billion.

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Ocean Conservancy

JANUARY 25, 2022

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Back in 2010, most of these groups visited because they heard of a little dolphin who had lost her tail. She inspired people to come to the aquarium and learn more about the animals that live in our ocean. Never miss an update. Sorry, but we failed to add you to the list.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

SIDS face a range of risks, including extreme floods, storms, droughts, unpredictability of precipitation patterns and sea-level rise, ocean acidification and deoxygenation (World Health Organization, 2018; Douglas & Cooper, 2020, Thomas, 2020). Small Islands, Large Oceans: Voices on the Frontlines of Climate Change.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JANUARY 17, 2024

Droughts are a particular challenge, as in Kansas where there were droughts in 56 of 156 months from 2010 to 2022. Extreme events in the Northwest will include storms resulting from atmospheric rivers over the Pacific Ocean. With rising sea levels and warming ocean temperatures, heatwaves and high-temperature toxins (e.g.,

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HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

Net atmospheric warming is problematic for a number of reasons – it leads to crop and vegetation stress which threatens our food security, it causes more intense dry seasons which lead to bigger wildfires that cause severe economic and environmental damage, and it leads to rising oceans levels which threaten existing infrastructure.

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HumanNature

APRIL 17, 2023

We also know that wood is stored for a period of time in streams, but that an essential function of wood is movement through river systems at varying rates 19,20 to its final destinations of lakes and oceans 21. Geomorphology 116 , 305–319 (2010). 2: Instream wood in the Hoh River, Washington, providing habitat for vegetation.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 2, 2021

To pursue this further, Lo did a PhD in atmosphere, oceans and climate at the University of Reading , UK. The conversations with clients have become a lot more mature than they were when I first started in this field around 2010,” says Crouch. Courtesy: David Pratt). They understand climate change as a real business risk.”.

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The Energy Law Blog

AUGUST 29, 2014

Background In 2010, in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the Department of Interior renamed the Minerals Management Service (MMS) the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement (BOEMRE). 3304, issued June 29, 2010. Richard Hastings (R-Wash.), In particular, Rep.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 18, 2022

In this case, as funds are more flexible, they will reportedly be used to create a marine PES system, as a way to pay coastal populations to protect the ocean. In 2007 and 2010 , for example, Costa Rica carried out its first debt-for-nature swaps with the United States. Debt-for-nature swaps in Costa Rica.

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Climate change will alter ocean currents, jet streams, species distributions, and the human geopolitical landscape. Not to mention that beyond the relatively simple relationship between polar bears and sea ice, there are also seals and the rest of the intricately intertwined Arctic ecosystem to contend with. 4 Rode KD, Amstrup SC, Regehr E V.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 30, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen The US government agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Coral Reef Watch is the world’s top coral reef monitoring body. According to Coral Reef Watch, more than 54% of the reef areas in the global oceans are experiencing bleaching-level heat stress.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 16, 2023

found that the companies—down to 88 due to mergers—were responsible for about 55 percent of ocean acidification between 1880 and 2015. But how was Richard Heede able to calculate that, at the time, 90 companies were responsible for nearly two-thirds of the carbon emissions between 1854 and 2010? percent of total emissions.

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), a sub-agency within Interior, promulgated regulations in 2009 which set forth the procedure for leasing, siting, construction, and operation of offshore wind projects. The regulatory process leading to the Vineyard Wind Project offshore Massachusetts began in 2010. federal waters.

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

2010 WL 5421015 (5th Cir. 30, 2010), the Fifth Circuit reversed the district court’s finding of summary judgment on liability under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (“OPA”). In Gabarick v. Laurin Maritime (America), Inc. As a result, a large amount of oil spilled from the barge into the river near New Orleans.

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 3, 2022

This is why I was so excited to have the opportunity to join Ocean Conservancy’s Global Ghost Gear Initiative® (GGGI) and the Rozalia Project for a cleanup of ghost gear in Maine aboard their 60-foot sailing vessel, the American Promise. The post Setting Sail to Collect Ghost Gear in Maine appeared first on Ocean Conservancy.

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ESA

DECEMBER 20, 2021

6180 ) to incentivize removing invasive lionfish from the oceans. Other report highlights include the cascading impacts of warming on Arctic ecosystems: The Arctic is experiencing high rates of ocean acidification, with implications for marine food chains. Ocean CDR is a set of strategies to sequester carbon dioxide in ocean waters.

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The Energy Law Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

According to the complaint (PDF) DOJ filed in February 2013, Cleartron ZB-103 was routinely “injected into the outfall pipe to mask oil sheen on the ocean surface resulting from ATP’s discharge of wastewater containing quantities of oil in excess of its NPDES permit limit.” ATP Oil & Gas Corp. , 955 F.Supp.2d 2d 616 (E.D. See 40 C.F.R.

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Ocean Conservancy

JULY 12, 2023

In early 1973, a group of scientists published an article in the journal Nature reflecting on a research expedition they had taken the year before, in an area of the Pacific Ocean some 600 miles from Hawaii known as the North Pacific Gyre.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 1, 2023

The Southern Hemisphere is also cold, but according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, “snow cover can only be measured over land areas, and not the ocean surface” — and most of the Southern Hemisphere is covered by ocean.

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